Auction: December 8, 2024

Lot #318: Gustave Dore Illustrated Dante and La Fontaine Leather Bound Books

(7) volumes including "The Dore Dante: Vision of Hell, Vision of Purgatory, Vision of Paradise", London, Cassell and Co., 1904, six volumes, folio, #4/1000 copies, having gilt stamped full red morocco bindings, leather inner covers, moire silk end papers, top edges gilt, frontispiece portraits of the poet and the illustrator and over one-hundred full-page wood-engravings and hand illuminated initial letters of alternating Cantos and a "The Fables of La Fontaine, Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury", Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, c.1870, having a half morocco over cloth binding, marbled end papers, all edges gilt, a portrait frontispiece of the author, over eighty full page wood engravings and smaller text cuts by Dore